Level 1 Lesson 5 / It’s me, What is it? / 이에요,예요Level 1 Lesson 5 / It’s me, What is it? / 이에요,예요
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After listening to this lesson, you can form simple present tense sentences like “It’s water.” “It’s me.” or “It’s a dictionary.” and you can also ask “What is it?” in Korean. The basic way in which Korean sentences are formed is different from the way English sentences are formed because the position of the verb in a sentence is different. In Korean, the verb “to be” comes AFTER a noun, and you can learn how to form simple “to be” sentences in Korean by listening to this episode of TalkToMeInKorean. Be sure to use the free PDF attached to this lesson as well.
You can read more about this grammar point at this Korean Wiki Project page.
Lesson PDF in other languages (Participate in the translation!)
Discussion( leave a comment )
Can you use yeyo and ieyo when you’re talking about a person?
Example:
Person 1- Jessica is waiting for someone at the restaurant. Who is it?
Person 2- It’s Tiffany.
In this example, can you use ieyo or yeyo to say “who is it” and “it’s tiffany”?
Of course you can use in the situation, too.
Jessica is waiting for someone at the restaurant. Who is it?
> 제시카는 식당에서 누구를 기다리고 있어요. (그 사람은) 누구예요?
It’s Tiffany.
> (그 사람은) 티파니예요.
It is correct but it would be better to say Tiffany – 이세요 because it is more respectful to the person you are talking about.
Thanks guys for this lesson!
Hi !!!!!
Have a question about mul + ieyo how it will pronounced?
ok mul the L but when i hear the phrase mul ieyo i think i hear a R murl something like that and it confuses me sometimes i replay it again and again but i dont really hear it can u help a little bit ?
thank you and sorry for that question maybe i dont have a good ear ^^)
When a vowel is followed after a letter with a last consonant, the last consonant is used to be pronounced at the position of vowel.
That is the reason why the expression is heard like [mu-ri-e-yo].
L i korean has a sound of L/R, it depends of what comes next
but there’s people who says that L in korean has a mixed sound of L and R
In many Asian languages, the “l” and “r” sound are similar and/or mixed up. For example, my parents call me “Henli” but it’s a very quick “l”. Just like rolling your “r” in Spanish. “Gracias” is a pretty good example.
I hope that helped!
안녕하세요! I just saw a YouTube video of 현우 (forgive me if the spelling is wrong 죄송합니다) giving language learning advice. I think that these lessons, along with his suggestion of practicing sentence formation, will be very helpful with speaking in Korean :D 감사합니다 again!
안녕히계세요!
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